ATLANTA – August 17, 2017 – Acuity
Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) introduced today Atrius™ Spaces, an Internet
of Things (IoT) platform service that helps customers manage space
utilization using a building’s occupancy data. Atrius Spaces, which
includes a web application and an application programming interface
(API), can be used to efficiently allocate and plan for spatial
requirements, allowing building managers to optimize facility
operations and budgets, as well as the overall management of a building
or campus throughout its lifecycle.

Atrius Spaces converts occupancy data available from the Atrius Sensory
Network (through nLight® lighting controls from Acuity Brands)
into a value-added building and business solution. The Atrius Spaces
web application visually represents real-time usage of spaces and
provides metrics based on historical data that identifies peak and
average space utilization and types of spaces used within one or
multiple buildings. Using optional Map Design and Site Audit
services, building managers can access room, floor and building plans
from any standard web browser at any time and from anywhere.

In addition, the Atrius Spaces platform service features an API that
allows developers to easily integrate the service with existing
customer tools and dashboards, or create different applications, making
IoT integration easier to achieve.

“New occupant dynamics, such as shared workspaces, “hoteling” for
employees who travel frequently, and those who intermittently work
remotely, make accurate space utilization data critical to building
operation,” said Greg Carter, Acuity Brands Lighting Senior Vice
President, Software Products. “Atrius Spaces reduces the effort
required to collect, interpret and analyze data, and provides real-time
actionable insights into to a building’s space utilization, which
allows building managers to focus on optimizing space tailored to
tenant and employee needs.”

The
Atrius brand encompasses the entire portfolio of IoT business solutions
from Acuity Brands. The Atrius framework delivers connectivity and
intelligence to a space via an expansive network of smart LED lighting
and controls and a software platform that gathers, unlocks and
transforms raw data to enable a broad range of software solutions
addressing critical business challenges. Atrius solutions have already
been deployed across more than 60 million square feet of spaces,
leveraging more than a million nodes.

For more information about Atrius, please visit www.acuitybrands.com/atrius.